Clay Jenkinson joins his friend Dennis McKenna in Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico to observe the solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. Chaco Canyon dates to at least the ninth century CE, more than a thousand years ago, and somehow their skywatchers know how to observe equinoxes, solstices, and eclipses. What better place to see the solar eclipse of 2024? Administered by the US National Park System, but interpreted for us by a Native Navajo and Zia expert Kailo Winters, it was a magical experience in a sacred place. We came away impressed by the capacity of the European Enlightenment to figure all of this out, but far more in awe of the Puebloan scholars who figured such phenomena out centuries before European science was out of its swaddling clothes. We also check in with our favorite Enlightenment correspondent David Nicandri.
#1561 The Titan and the Titanic
#1560 The Oppenheimer Film as Cinema
#1559 The Plight of a Secular Society
#1558 How Accurate Was the Oppenheimer Movie?
#1557 The Death of Great Salt Lake
#1556 John Quincy Adams Part II
#1555 John Quincy Adams Deserves Better
#1554 Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Civilization
#1553 Shackleton’s Ship the Endurance Found!
#1552 Ten Things: If George Washington Could Drop the Mic
#1551 On the Set of the Oppenheimer Film
#1550 The Death of Glen Canyon Dam
#1549 Welcome to Listening to America
#1548 Ten Things about Thomas Jefferson’s First Inaugural Address
#1547 Jefferson, John Marshall, and Judicial Review
#1546 The Founders and the Cutting Room Floor
#1545 Live from Radford University
#1544 Ten Things about Woodrow Wilson
#1543 Are We Rome?
#1542 The Quest for the Wooly Mammoth
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